Synopsis

Murder has manners…

When a dinner party at a friend’s country estate ends with the gruesome murder of the local curate, Mariah Featherstone will have to clear the name of an innocent man, one who also happens to be her former suitor. But capturing the real killer may not be simple when everyone in the house seems to possess the means and motive for the killing.

Can Mariah deduce the identity of the murderer before she becomes the next corpse? And will her efforts uncover a truth she would rather not discover?

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Accomplished In Detection is part of a new series of historical mystery novelettes featuring intrepid Victorian heroines up to their bustles in crime. The Accomplished works are only loosely connected and can be read in any order.